Tom Petty — One Story Town Chords

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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 12:54:39 EDT
From: winston campbell 
Subject: ONE STORY TOWN by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers


One Story Town
	(words & music by Tom Petty)


The intro is:  B5* (the bass occasionally plays an A and hammers on a B note,
you can hear it in the song).

The intro riff is:

E ———————————|——————————————————||
B ———————————|———————————————7——||
G —9——8h9p8——|—————9——8—————————||
D ———————————|—7——————————9—————||
A ———————————|——————————————————||
E ———————————|——————————————————||


Please escuse the vulgar misinterpretations of the lyrics:


      F#5
Yeah, I~ve been standing up
E5
I~ve been breaking free
  F#5                    E5           B5*
I don~t want fate handed down to me
      F#5
Yeah, I~ve been moving on
E5
Try another town
F#5
Times ain~t changin~ nothing
E5                   B5*
Take a look around

    D5        A5        G5
I~m lost in a one story town
      D5           A5           G5
Where everything~s close to the ground
      G5             A5
Yeah, same shit goes down
G5            A5
Nothing turns around
       G5  A5      B5*
It~s a one story town


She was over seventeen when I held her to her word
Had to push her luck
Thought she couldn~t breathe
No it didn~t hurt me when she had to leave
She had a far away feeling
Wasn~t part of me

I~m lost in a one story town
Where everything~s close to the ground
Yeah, same shit goes down
Nothing turns around
It~s a one story town

Instrumental:  A5, A5, A5....B5

Yeah, I~m lost in a one story town
Where everything~s close to the ground
Yeah, same shit goes down
Nothing turns around
It~s a one story town

Ending:  B5*


Those high guitar parts for the chorus are:

   X                    Y

E —————17——14—————————|—5h7p5——————————8h10p8—|
B —15——————————15—————|———————————————————————|
G —————————————————16—|———————————————————————|
D ————————————————————|———————————————————————|
A ————————————————————|———————————————————————|
E ————————————————————|———————————————————————|


—X— is played sometimes during the first half of the chorus and —Y— is played
after that part where Petty sings —same shit goes down—.

I hope this has been help towards you.


Oh yeah!  For the instrumental Mike's guitar just plays:

A —10——12——|
E —————————|

And that's about it.